This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our experience applying to the Peace Corps. It took 17 months from our initial contact with a recruiter to when we departed and there was a multitude of tasks involved,…
Applying to the Peace Corps: Legal and Medical Clearance
This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our experience applying to the Peace Corps. It took 17 months from our initial contact with a recruiter to when we departed and there was a multitude of tasks involved,…
Applying to the Peace Corps: Application and Interviews
This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our experience applying to the Peace Corps. It took 17 months from our initial contact with a recruiter to when we departed and there was a multitude of tasks involved,…
Applying to the Peace Corps: Timeline
This is part of a series in which I’ll describe our experience applying to the Peace Corps. It took 17 months from our initial contact with a recruiter to when we departed and there was a multitude of tasks involved,…
6 Useful Things We Packed
I have been wanting to write a blog post all about packing to list out everything we are carrying with us in our bags. Eight months into our trip, I still haven’t gotten around to it – there’s always something…
Thank You Mom and Dad!
This post is dedicated to my parents, Tim and Joy, who graciously allowed us to disrupt their normal lives to live with them for a month. Jon and I moved back into my old childhood bedroom (since remade into a…
The City by the Bay
When we first started planning for our big RTW (round-the-world) trip, we knew that we would want to have a little bit of time off between quitting our jobs and hitting the road. The logical step would be to spend…
Shots, Shots, Shots! (And Some Pills Too!)
One of the big things on our To Do list before we leave is vaccinations. It’s unavoidable that we’ll need to spend some money and time at the doctor’s office to get vaccinated, but it’s also such a large task…
To Do List – 6 Months Away
We’ve put together a very rough to-do list of things we need to accomplish over the next 6 months. Some of these are things that we can start doing now (and have been!) and some of these will need to…